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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Orrin A. Watson

(c. 1841 - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 27th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 19 year old clerk living on his parents' farm at White Cross in Orange County, NC. He enlisted in Hillsborough on 20 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in the Orange Guards - Company G, 27th North Carolina Infantry - on 22 June.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862. His father James filed for his final pay in March 1863.

References & notes

Basic casualty information from Wilson.1 His service from the Roster2 and his Compiled Service Records,3 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, also as Orin A. Watson.

Birth

c. 1841; Orange County, NC

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Wilson, William P., Adjutant, Casualty list of the 27th N.C.S.T. at Sharpsburg, North Carolina Standard, 1862-10-15 [AotW citation 9965]

2 Manarin, Louis H., and Weymouth Tyree Jordan, Matthew M Brown, Michael W Coffey, North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865 : A Roster, 20 Volumes +, Raleigh: North Carolina State Department of Archives and History, 1966-, Vol. VIII [AotW citation 10055]

3 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 31497]

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